What's bothering me the most is that he claim facial recognition is involved while no evidence at all is provided in the body of the article.
Look like a plain old identity theft with the ID card he lost... As long as they recon his innocence after "humanely comparing" his face in a police station with video footage what would actually worth 1 Bn$ ???
A few year ago a coworker of mine was often contacted by police because his car plate was used by a matching stolen car... It was embarrassing but he didn't sue the car-maker as far as I know...
Also please read this fine lines it might be very interesting for some:
>If you believe your MacBook or MacBook Pro was affected by this issue, and you paid to have your keyboard repaired, you can contact Apple about a refund.
But isn't that a new behavior? Before I subscribed 1-2 year ago I read small characters pretty carefully, and in my memories in such case the behavior was to lock the previously private repo in a read-only state. Switching back to pro would then have restored full functionalities and setting on theses privates repos.
Automatically making it public seems like a new behavior, could someone confirm/infirm my memories?
The thing is I have the "hellishly flawed MBP 2016", I carry it daily into my messenger bag over bike/train/feet (often running to catch train) in a separate pocket but without other protection. It fell on the floor once from table height with lid open and ended up with a very small scratch on the corner but totally ok otherwise (and it was totally my fault).
Everything is perfectible but to say it's not a good and resilient design as compared to other laptops is just non-sense. Nothing is 100% fail-proof we must be realistic.
I had issues with apple products, but nothing so bad that a visit at a genius bar couldn't solve in a reasonable manner. Yet I will loose trust the day they let me down in an intolerable way, but surely not based on hearsay's from the web.
I've got a couple of friends who are Apple fans - iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, full loadout. Once the time came to upgrade their MacBook Airs the question was whether to go with a Windows laptop to avoid keyboard issues, or risk it. Both decided to risk it, being Apple fans. And cause we don't know how big of a percentage of people are affected by the keyboard issues. I advised them to go with Apple. They got a 13" 2017 MBP and a 15" 2018 MBP. Now the 2017 MBP had only one keyboard failure which was fixed free of charge. The 2018 on the other hand had two keyboard failures (broken key and several keys permanently pressed), and shortly after the second keyboard failure the laptop stopped turning on.
My point is, when buying those laptops, you do take a risk on whether your use case and your individual unit is going to experience issues. This was all hypothetical to me as well, until my friends paid their money to find out whether it was real or not.
Except that if it's a 2018 model they didn't actually paid money, it was take free of charge under one year worldwide guarantee even without an AppleCare Plan. And unless they very recently changed policy after the second failure on a recent machine you can usually bargain an instant switch with a refurbished anew unit.
With DuckDuckGo you can always use the !g syntax to switch to google if first results don't suit you need.
By my experience DDG usually provide way more appropriate answers when you are looking for a reference or a documentation entry. Google still is better for recently pushed contents like news and is still marginally better for finding result inside Q&A sites. After 1-2 years of DDG by default I tend to know in advance which query is best for which search engine and so I half conscientiously add the !g while typing when needed.
I don't know why so many DDG users use '!g' unless they're using Edge or just aren't aware that Chromium and Firefox both let you create an arbitrary keyword like 'g' for a search provider, which is a lot easier to type.
Some of the other bang commands do look useful, though.
Guess I have a "localized" deformation as french keyboard include a ! character accessible without any key modifier, so it's actually pretty straightforward to use.
The saddest part being that the film industry is even further behind. Some contents are still totally unreachable by any legal offer outside their home country.
My personal rule of thumb is that if I look for a reference manual or an official website vanilla DDG is the way to go. If I'm looking for really fresh contents like news or latest QA !g gives better results.
Guess it's logical because even if the search algorithm of DDG is pretty neat, they can't compete yet with Google army of crawlers that probably use every idle computing power of their massive cloud.
Non english speaker here you mentioned an OSS solution called "Inbulk" or something like that during the conversation. Could you spell it I'm pretty interested in finding out more about that project but google return a lot of unrelated result because of the name I guess...
For batch-type of workloads embulk has been really excellent tool for my company (for all extract and load steps. We do most of the transformations in db/warehouse)
Look like a plain old identity theft with the ID card he lost... As long as they recon his innocence after "humanely comparing" his face in a police station with video footage what would actually worth 1 Bn$ ???
A few year ago a coworker of mine was often contacted by police because his car plate was used by a matching stolen car... It was embarrassing but he didn't sue the car-maker as far as I know...